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• Musket — Muskets and bayonets aboard the frigate Grand Turk. A musket is a muzzle loaded, smooth bore long gun, fired from the shoulder. Muskets were designed for use by infantry. A soldier armed with a musket had the designation musketman or musketeer.… …   Wikipedia

• Musket Wars — The Musket Wars were a series of five hundred or more battles mainly fought between various hapū (subtribes a group of about 200 400 people), sometimes alliances of pan hapū groups and less often larger iwi (tribal groups) of Māori between 1807… …   Wikipedia

• Powder horn (ammunition) — A powder horn was a device used to carry gunpowder, and was generally created from a cow or buffalo horn. They were most commonly used with eighteenth century muskets, but were rendered obsolete by the development of self contained cartridges.… …   Wikipedia

• musket ball — noun a solid projectile that is shot by a musket (Freq. 2) they had to carry a ramrod as well as powder and ball • Syn: ↑ball • Hypernyms: ↑shot, ↑pellet …   Useful english dictionary

• Charleville musket — Musket Model 1766 Type Musket Place of origin …   Wikipedia

• military technology — Introduction       range of weapons, equipment, structures, and vehicles used specifically for the purpose of fighting. It includes the knowledge required to construct such technology, to employ it in combat, and to repair and replenish it.… …   Universalium

• Mangal Pandey — Born 19 July 1827 Nagwa, Ballia, U. P., India Died 8 April 1857 Barrackpore, Calcutta, India Occupation …   Wikipedia

• small arm — small armed, adj. Usually, small arms. a firearm designed to be held in one or both hands while being fired: in the U.S. the term is applied to weapons of a caliber of up to one in. (2.5 cm). [1680 90] * * * ▪ military technology Introduction… …   Universalium

• Brown Bess — British Land Pattern Musket a.k.a. Brown Bess A Short Land Pattern Musket Type Musket Place of origin …   Wikipedia

• Paper cartridge — refers to one of various types of small arms ammunition used before the advent of the metallic cartridge. These cartridges consisted of a paper cylinder or cone containing the bullet, gunpowder, and, in some cases, a primer or a lubricating and… …   Wikipedia

• Pattern 1853 Enfield — Rifle Musket 1853 Enfield Rifle Musket Type Rifled Musket Place of origin …   Wikipedia